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The Politics of Expatriates in the U.S.
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"Listen. I hate
communists, but I hate some of these exiles more."
--Augstin Tamargo, a Cuban refugee
"Beloved corpses, you that once
Were the hope of my Homeland,
Cast upon my forehead
The dust of your decaying bones!"
--quoted by
Castro in his Courtroom Speech
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Introduction
The death of communism as a historical force, reflected in the transition of the
ex-Soviet block into a pseudo Third World to be integrated into the planning of a global
economy, leaves Cuban-Americans in a critical position; many observers assume that a
socialist Cuba will go the way of Eastern Europe and China in the ideological stalemate
between late-capitalism and authoritarian Socialism. Simultaneously, many Cuban
expatriates living in the United States are preparing to invest in a post-Castro Cuba, to
redress what they see as the economic injustices of the 1959 revolution.
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